A dentist and his young wife have been arrested for raping a 13-year-old girl in order to “draw out evil spirits,” as part of the religious group the dentist operated when he was not fixing people’s teeth.

A 13-year-old schoolgirl has been killed in an exorcism by her cultist father and a Buddhist monk, drowning after having been forced to undergo the ritual of the “waterfall austerity” over a hundred times.

A school which is making schoolgirls clean their male classmates’ toilets barefoot and barehanded is arousing widespread disgust amongst Japanese, both for the humiliating nature of the practice and its complete diregard for hygiene, amidst accusations that a bizarre toilet-cleaning cult run by an elderly millionaire is actually trying to infiltrate the nation’s schools…

Still western thinking.
In Japan having the girls you share you school life with cleaning your messes will yield to better result.
Male would socialize on that and come to understand each other's messes while showing them... More

So Einstein was dumb? Isaac Newton?
Most of the smart people alive are very religious. They just tend to have some weird twist on it, from the "mainstream" point of view. Heck, many are actually throwbacks... More

A mother and father who denied permission for their one-year-old boy to receive a life-saving blood transfusion were stripped of parental authority by courts on the same day, saving the life of the infant.

They cited religious reasons for endangering the life of the boy; speculation centres on them being Jehovah’s Witnesses.

It's good for genetic diversity. The human population is large enough that the stronger do not get diluted to disappearance. Also strong/weak is high context dependent. Some people considered weak now may become very strong... More

Anonymous commented on May 5, 2012 05:54

@Riiku, your complete lack of sense, rationality, and morality not-with-standing, the sheer potential that rests every child justifies any and all "corruption" or "dilution" of humanity as a whole. The next kid saved by medical... More